‘Riddick,’ ‘Marvel Knights’ Top Busy Week for New Discs

The return of Vin Diesel’s cult-favorite sci-fi hero in Riddick leads a strong and diverse week of animated and visual-effects home video releases.

Riddick (Universal, $29.98 DVD; $34.98 Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy) is the third live-action movie in the series and the fourth counting an animated feature. One of the more durable franchises, Riddick also stars Karl Urban and is written and directed by Tim Twohy. Released in September, the film grossed just under $100 million in ticket sales worldwide. The film featured effects work by Method Studios, Entity FX, Mokko Studio, Tinsley Studio, Modus FX, Comen FX, Oblique FX, Behold 3D and XYZ-RGB.

The most recent entry in Marvel’s direct-to-video motion comics arrives in the form of Marvel Knights: Wolverine vs. Sabretooth (Shout! Factory, $14.97). This disc adapts a popular comic-book storyline written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Simone Bianchi, animating the original comic book art to good effect.